Last Top Stories: US new-age festival comes to Sunshine Coast

US new-age festival comes to Sunshine Coast

One of West Coast America's biggest new-age lifestyle festivals – Wanderlust – is coming to the Sunshine Coast for the first time. The globe-trotting Wanderlust festival shifts home from Washington, New York, California and Toronto and Hollywood after ... >> view original

Palmview's Strawberry Fields forever busy

THE Sunshine Coast is set for its annual red-berry boon with backpackers settling in for the strawberry picking season. Foreigners keen to complete employment requirements for their working travel visas are queued up waiting to start plucking fruit ... >> view original

Addict threatens to "knife" passengers on Jetstar flight

A DRUG addict threatened to "knife everyone" on a Jetstar flight from the Sunshine Coast to Melbourne after being told to stow his luggage overhead. While some people would kill for a window seat on a plane, it was getting one that led Sam Llewellyn ... >> view original

Swim event a loving tribute to Kari and people with CF

BEAUTIFUL Sunshine Coast dancer Kari-Lee Birrell loved mermaids, the beach, Brazilian music and sausage sizzles. The 25-year-old's great loves, and courageous spirit, will be remembered today as 50 family, friends, former work colleagues and teachers ... >> view original

Wanderlust Festival set to bring thousands

Wanderlust Festival has been lured to the Coast in October and will return in 2016 and 2017 in a deal struck between the organisers and Sunshine Coast Events sponsored by council with support of Twin Waters Resort. The mix of yoga, meditation, outdoor ... >> view original

YOUR STORY: Rental demands put pressure on living costs

THE high cost of renting a house on the Sunshine Coast is leaving some residents with as little as $10 a day to survive on. The shocking figures released by the Salvation Army as part of its Economic and Social Impact study sure had the Coast talking. >> view original

AFL-mad as class battler praised act by mourners

It's his family and his other family - the Sunshine Coast AFL community - who will be hit the hardest by the loss of the community champion. Ahead of the funeral, close friend Jeff Smith said Mr Matson was the type of person who gave so much and asked ... >> view original

Fire intends to create some breathing space

A GOLDEN opportunity to cement themselves in the top four awaits the Sunshine Coast Fire, providing they can do the business against lowly Brisbane City tomorrow. Hammered 4-0 by arch rival the Brisbane Strikers and 3-1 by the Brisbane Roar Youth side ... >> view original

Viral photo shows 2 young girls with cancer hugging

A photo showing two cancer-stricken little girls embracing one another at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh has quickly gone viral. The patients, Maliyah Jones and Madelina DeLuca, hadn't known each other for long when the telling photo was snapped, ... >> view original

Private clinic selling patients takeaway ketamine, syringes

A commercial medical clinic with branches in Sydney and Melbourne has been selling ketamine to patients seeking treatment for depression and teaching them how to shoot it up. Aura Medical has been offering a "DIY" option that allows patients to take home ... >> view original